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Campaign to legalize marijuana gains
unusal allies
March 8, 2010 - kxly.com
SPOKANE -- Organizers for Initiative 1068 are working to get their
proposal to have Washington voters decide whether or not the use and
possession of marijuana should be legalized on the ballot, and they’re
gaining some unusual allies in their fight.
According to Sensible Washington some deputy prosecutors and a judge
have signed their petition as apparently at least some people who
enforce our drug laws think it may be time to change them.
Right now if you were caught selling or just possessing this much
marijuana here in Spokane you could be charged with a felony, but
supporters of I-1068 think voters should have a chance to change all
that.
“Initiative 1068 would remove criminal and civil penalties for adults
who possess marijuana, use, grow,” Renata Rollins with Sensible
Washington said.
Selling marijuana would also be legalized and on Monday Renata Rollins
had no trouble finding people ready for a change in the law that would
ultimately lead to legalizing marijuana use.
Robert Jeffers signed the petition after he was told Washington spent
$100 Million prosecuting marijuana crimes just last year.
“Because if you have it inside a business you won't have people looking
for it on a street corner or but it illegally from their friends and
then you don't have to worry about for one, people breaking the law,
going to jail, which results in wasting taxpayers money,” Jeffers said.
The cost of prosecuting marijuana offenders is apparently also a
concern for law enforcement, especially when so many people at
Spokane’s Public Safety Building are getting laid off.
“We had some unlikely people sign including a couple of county
prosecutors here and a federal judge,” Renata said. “What they told me
is that it's not worth the time and money, we have better things to be
doing.”
However some people were quick to turn down the petition. Ted St.
Clair, for example, rejected the proposal because he feels marijuana
use leads to other more addictive drugs.
“Families that were broken up, marriages that went down the tube … why
legalize something that they have been trying to stamp out for years
and years and years?” St. Clair asked.
Under this proposal it would still be illegal to drive under the
influence of marijuana or to possess it if you're under the age of 18.
The initiative must gather about a quarter million signatures by July.
To help with the signature drive organizers plan to be out in force
during Spokane's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
-------------------- Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe There's people always dying trying to keep them alive There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight In an abandoned building where A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world Four winds blowing through her hair
What families...which marriages...? Is it possible that the law is responsible for this?
And why keep wasting more money...year, after year, after year...trying to stamp out something that will NEVER go away? Something that has been used for thousands of years, helps the ill, and is less harmful than certain legal substances, such as alcohol and tobacco. Go ahead, waste more of our civil servants' time and another couple hundred thou on this futile "war"...just use your own money, Ted St. Clair.
It is not a surprise that such individuals have submitted their support for this bill. It is the judges who are forced to dole out sentences to otherwise "good" people for things such as marijuana possession and other "Allies".
Even some of "them" see that it is time for change.
Lol w/e I don't mean to be a dick buuuut... have you all noticed most of the people who are opposed to reform are from an older generation? One who has been through decades of anti-marijuana propaganda. My point is they're old, and time favors youth and progression. So sorry old man but it's our time to make the rules... now step aside and find something else to blame divorces on.
-------------------- We do not possess imagination enough
to sense what we are missing.
Jean Toomer
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